Age: 51
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Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (born October 28, 1974) is an American actor. Known for his roles as dark, unconventional and eccentric characters, particularly in period dramas, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, The New York Times named him one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Phoenix began his career by appearing in a television series in the early 1980s with his older brother River. His first major film roles were in SpaceCamp (1986) and Parenthood (1989). During this period, he was credited as Leaf Phoenix. He began being credited as Joaquin Phoenix in To Die For, his first adult role. He received critical acclaim for his supporting roles in the comedy-drama To Die For (1995) and the period film Quills (2000). Phoenix received further critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Commodus in the historical drama Gladiator (2000). He had success with the horror films Signs (2002), The Village (2004) and the historical drama Hotel Rwanda (2004). He won a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of musician Johnny Cash in the biopic Walk the Line (2005). Following a brief sabbatical, Phoenix starred in the psychological drama The Master (2012), winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and earning his third Academy Award nomination. He gained praise for his roles in the romantic drama Her (2013) and the crime satire Inherent Vice (2014) and won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the psychological thriller You Were Never Really Here (2017). For his performance as the titular character of Joker (2019), Phoenix won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since starred in the independent films C'mon C'mon (2021), and Beau Is Afraid (2023) and portrayed the title role in the historical drama Napoleon (2023). Outside of acting, Phoenix is an animal rights activist. A vegan, he regularly supports charitable causes and has produced several documentaries on global meat consumption and its impact on the environment.
Jonathan Crane has always had a strange relationship with fear. He was raised on a farm by his crazy scientist father, who was working on a weaponized fear toxin. He did this by subjecting kidnapped victims to their greatest fears before killing them. He would then harvest their adrenal glands, blend them into a liquid, and mix it with various psychotropic and hallucinogenic chemicals. His plan was to create a formula that could cure mankind of it’s fears and create a stronger world. Jonathan was his unhappy assistant and had an intense fear of the farm’s scarecrow. Despite his father’s cruel actions, he still loved him. Just as his father perfected the formula, he was killed by the police when they finally caught up to him. Jonathan was greatly saddened by his father’s death, but didn’t want to become the monster he did. He eventually managed to become a college psychology professor, but was a bit too fanatical about teaching fear. He would do all sorts of experiments, like releasing a live rat into the class and monitoring his student’s reactions, to firing a live gun in class. This is what eventually got him fired from his position. Enraged, Jonathan traveled back to his farm and dug up his father’s formula for the Fear Toxin. He first injected himself with the toxin to conquer his fear, and then went outside and stabbed the scarecrow to “death”. He then donned a brown frock coat, a plague doctor’s mask, and a gas tank full of the fear toxin.
